Saturday, November 28, 2015

A Funny Man



I sent
A poem
About
A miss,
Into
The chief
Put up
Like this.

And then he went and stretched it out
Into two lines, or thereabout.

And then he hollered through the door:
“You’ll have to grind out six lines more!”

And thus
It is
Day af-
Ter day;
I have
To grind
To get
My pay.



Nov. 28, 1910
Ac. Judge



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